The Road to Audio Nirvana Has Been Rerouted!

"Sometimes, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is not crowned the proverbial king, but simply misunderstood and ignored. CES 2005 seemed, to me, to mark a turning point. ... The idea of digital room correction lives on, however, in the form of the Tact system, which has been c onsiderably revised since its inception and is now combined with programmable digital crossovers (including time delays) and multichannel digital amplification, so that the whole system can be purely digital, right up to the speaker. ...

to listen to the system was to be transported to the room acoustics of the recording, and, via the "target curves", the user has control of the tonal character.

"Few Exhibits, indeed, could compete with the Tact system for revealing both the true timbres and the original acoustics.